Under the Skin: Venice Film Festival

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The British director Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Michel Faber’s acclaimed
novel has been a long time coming. It was shot in the winter of 2011 and was
in development for about a decade before that. After a long and difficult
post-production period, during which Glazer apparently scrapped the special
effects and started from scratch, the film finally reaches our cinemas. But
this enigmatic, erotic chiller more than repays the wait.

Glazer’s singular vision melds Kubrick and Ken Loach with a touch of Nic Roeg
for good measure.

Scarlett Johansson stalks through the film as the woman who fell to Earth